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(architecture) Louvres or strips of wood or metal used as windbreaks that allow light and air in, often seen in belfries.
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(carpentry) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet.
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(architecture) A bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, especially for protecting an angle of a wall.
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(architecture) Any decoration serving to cover the ends of roofing tiles.
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(roofing) A flashing located at the juncture of the top of a sloped roof and a vertical wall, chimney or steeper-sloped roof.
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(architecture) The moldings (or other elements) framing a door, window or other rectangular opening.
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(architecture, woodworking) A small groove between two mouldings.
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(architecture) A window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.
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(architecture) The congeries of mouldings which is under the projecting part of almost every cornice, of which, indeed, it is a part.
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(architecture) The triforium, as opposed to the clerestory.
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(architecture) A moulding that covers a joint, especially between joints between surfaces on different levels.
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(architecture) A curved, bow-shaped window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building, similar to a bay window.
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(architecture) An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
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(architecture) The overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room.
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Alternative form of clerestory [(architecture) The upper part of a wall containing windows to let in natural light to a building, especially in the nave, transept and choir of a church or cathedral.]
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(architecture) The upper part of a wall containing windows to let in natural light to a building, especially in the nave, transept and choir of a church or cathedral.
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(roofing) a method of valley application in which shingles from one side of the valley extend across the valley while shingles from the other side are trimmed back a few inches from the valley centerline.
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(architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
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(architecture) bow window
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(construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
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(architecture) One of a series of step-like projections at the top of a gable.
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(architecture) A series of step-like projections at the top of a gable.
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(architecture) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch or vault.
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A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.
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(architecture) A sort of low spherical vault, oven-like.
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(architecture) Any one of a series of small rectangular blocks projecting like teeth from a molding or beneath a cornice.
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(archaeology) A slab forming part of a doorway.
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An upright window built from a sloping roof.
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(architecture) An element such as a baseboard, handrail, etc., that is curved instead of abruptly changing direction.
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Having eaves (of a specified number or kind).
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(architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
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(architecture) An outside door with glass panes, serving as a window and a door
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(architecture) A window with its upper part shaped like a gable.
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(architecture) Gables collectively.
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(architecture) The part of the entablature that projects outward from the top of the frieze, frieze course, or architrave.
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(architecture) A capping moulding; a cymatium.
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(archaeology) A roof tile common in Ancient Greek and Roman architecture, used in an overlapping formation with the tegula.
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(architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
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(architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
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(architecture) A sunken panel or coffer in a ceiling or a soffit.
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(architecture) A sharp pointed arch used in doors and windows, etc. This type of architecture was peculiar to England in the 13th century.
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(architecture) A horizontal stringcourse for preventing rain from trickling down a wall.
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(architecture) A cornice.
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(architecture) A stringcourse or horizontal suit of mouldings, such as the base mouldings of a building.
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Obsolete form of ledgment. [(architecture) A stringcourse or horizontal suit of mouldings, such as the base mouldings of a building.]
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(architecture) A cross-shaped rib of an ogival vault.
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(architecture) In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.
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(architecture) A dormer-window.
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(architecture) Alternative form of louver [A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.]
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(architecture) A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.
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(architecture) Having a lunette or lunettes.
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(architecture) A dormer window.
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Alternative form of mullion [(architecture) A vertical bar between the panes of glass or casements of a window or the panels of a screen.]
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(architecture) A blank window or panel.
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Alternative form of oriel [(architecture) A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a protrusion on the outer wall.]
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A type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S shape.
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(architecture) The underside of a cornice; a soffit.
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(architecture) Areas of an architectural plan or section that are filled in, often by cross-hatching or solid black, to show wall thicknesses, floor thicknesses and all other solid areas that intersect the plane of the section cut.
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(roofing) an insulated and ballasted roofing assembly in which the insulation and ballast are applied on top of the membrane (sometimes referred to as an "inverted roof assembly").
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(architecture) Any of the grooves or chases cut into stone walls to receive the upper edges of the lead flashings.
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(roofing) The last or top course of roofing materials, such as tile, roll roofing, shingles, etc. that covers the ridge and overlaps the intersecting field roofing.
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(roofing) an assembly of interacting roof components including the roof deck, vapor retarder (if needed), insulation and roof covering.
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(obsolete) A ridge-tile, a tile for the ridge of a roof.
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A craftsman who lays, or repairs roofs.
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the profile of a roof or a series of roofs
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(archaeology) debris from the roof (and walls) of a cave or similar shelter
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Alternative form of scuncheon [(architecture) The portion of a wall exposed by an opening in a wall such as a window or door frame, when the window frame does not conceal the entire width of the wall.]
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Alternative form of scuncheon [(architecture) The portion of a wall exposed by an opening in a wall such as a window or door frame, when the window frame does not conceal the entire width of the wall.]
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(now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar.
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(architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
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(architecture) The upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma.
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(roofing) A roof system in which the principal roof covering is a single layer of flexible membrane often thermoset or thermoplastic.
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(architecture) Of a door or a window: bevelled so as to be larger on one side of the wall than on the other.
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(architecture) A line above which an arch starts curving inward.
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(roofing) Shingle with tabs that are all the same size and exposure.
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(architecture) A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure, as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room.
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(architecture) The amount of wall space at either side of a window where the curtains are drawn back when fully open.
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(architecture) A thin projecting course of brickwork or stone that runs horizontally around a building, typically to emphasize the junction between floors.
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(biology, anthropology) Roof-shaped; sloping downwards on two sides from a raised central ridge.
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(archaeology) The construction of a roof from tegulae.
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(historical) An Ancient Roman engine for making a breach in a wall.
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(architecture) A tray-shaped recess in a ceiling.
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A kind of cavaedium in which the roof timbers are framed together so as to leave a central open space (the compluvium) to admit light.
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(architecture) One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.
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(architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
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The inside face of the low, and usually thin, piece of wall between the window sill and the floor below.
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